[EL] my take on the 2012 elections and forward

Tue Nov 20 11:49:14 PST 2012

Hi Frank:

Great op-ed you published.

You may find the opposite opinion published in today's Washington Post of interest.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conservative-republicans-fight-back-after-romney-loss/2012/11/19/4d04a050-3270-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html?hpid=z2

Conservative Republicans fight back after Romney loss

By Paul Kane and Rosalind S. Helderman, Published: November 19

Evangelical leaders and conservative activists have a simple message for establishment Republicans about Mitt Romney’s failed presidential bid: We told you so.
After nearly two weeks of listening to GOP officials pledge to assert greater control over the party and its most strident voices in the wake of Romney’s loss, grass-roots activists have begun to fight back, saying that they are not to blame for the party’s losses in November.
“The moderates have had their candidate in 2008 and they had their candidate in 2012. And they got crushed in both elections. Now they tell us we have to keep moderating.  If we do that, will we win?” said Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Askin <faskin at kinoy.rutgers.edu>
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Subject: [EL] my take on the 2012 elections and forward

FYI - attached is my op ed from today's Star-Ledger entitled "Trends
Aren't Pointing GOP's Way," which suggests that unless the Republicans
do a major make over, they will go the way of the dinosaurs by 2020, 
FRANK

Prof. Frank Askin
Distinguished Professor of Law       and Director
Constitutional Litigation Clinic
Rutgers Law School/Newark
(973) 353-5687

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Today's op-ed from print edition

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